Rambl
Presents The City Rises
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I listened to Triple R during my high school years. It made me feel like less of a dork. Then my very good friend and fellow cosmic voyager Declan Kelly started his show Against The Arctic which I guested on regularly and eventually started doing fill-ins for.
What/when was your first show?
The City Rises: Music for Future Souls. December 4th, 2009.
What's your favourite Triple R story?
For several years Against the Arctic was on a Sunday night from 8-10pm. (It’s now moved to Tuesday 8-10pm) It was followed by Michael Kucyk’s Noise In My Head and a firm friendship was developed between the two shows and their regulars. When Against the Arctic eventually moved from that slot we did a back-to-back, 4 hour ‘Against My Head’ or ‘Noise in the Arctic’ show with a bunch of old guests and a ton of records. Great times.
Your favourite other Triple R program and why?
I have a number and I love them all for the same reason: A unique and impeccable selection of extraordinary and under-represented music. Against the Arctic, Noise In My Head, Stylin’, To and Fro, Breaking and Entering.
What does Triple R mean to you?
The best community radio station in the world and an integral part of Melbourne.
The studio door has accidentally jammed shut with you stuck inside. If there was only one CD in there with you what would you want it to be and why?
A load of mp3s on a CD-R. Maurizio, Burial, Kode9, Flying Lotus, Mark Pritchard, Carl Craig, Dorian Concept, Daedalus, 2562, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Larry Levan, I-F, Spacek, Joker, Juan Atkins, Theo Parrish, Kenny Dixon Jr, Recloose, Zomby, Madlib, Sa-Ra, Arthur Russell, MF Doom, J Dilla, Padlock, Tony Allen, Kraftwerk, Floating Points, Moondog, Sun Ra, Ron Hardy, Ron Trent, Chez Damier, Dam-Funk, Kano, and to paraphrase the Talking Heads, “Goes on, and the list goes on”…
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?
The City Rises. Friday Nights, 12-2, Triple R, 102.7FM
Rambl Bio
Rambl aka Richard Campbell has been a long time contributor to Melbourne’s thriving underground dance music scene as a DJ, promotor and pundit. With a musical bent he describes as “Future Soul” he plays a space-freak cutting-edge combination of old and new, from future beat hip-hop a la JayDee, through the heavy motion of underground UK steppas music, to whacked-out electronic beats, balearic and cosmic disco, detroit style roots house and forward thinking techno. As a digger, he hits many of the styles in between, dreaming of the future with one eye on the past, taking in jazz, sound-tracks, ethno-funk, reggae, dub, latin, minimal soundscapes, deep electronica and their myriad mutant offspring. Richard is also a long time collaborator with Declan Kelly, performing under their Research and Development moniker, guesting regularly on Declan’s Against the Arctic, co-producing webzine r-n-d.net and producing 2005’s “Theme from Juan” with James Cecil as part of the group Tempo Perdido which was released on seminal house imprint Yoruba Records. Rambl has also done many fill-ins for RRR - as the regular for Declan’s Against the Arctic as well as others - and produced two series of 6 shows over summer.
